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W. S. SEYMOUR.

FRAME FOR WOVEN WIRE MATTRESSES.

No 351,073. Patented 001;. 19, 1886.

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WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ZALMON G. SIMMONS, OF SAME PLACE.

FRAME FOR WOVEN-WIRE MATTRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,073, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed May 21, 1886. Serial No. 202.831. (No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR, of Kenosha, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Woven-Wire Mattresses, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to frames for mattresses of woven wire or elastic fabric stretched on the end rails of the frame, the side rails having enlargements or upward projections at their ends for supporting the fabric sufficiently above the side rails to prevent its coming in contact with them in use; and the object is to make the frame so that the side rails may be folded between the end rails in order that the mattress comprising the fabric and frame may occupy less space, be more easily ham-- dled, and more advantageously stored or packed for shipment.

The invention consists in the features and arrangement of parts hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view showing the side rails folded in. Fig 3 is a cross-section on line m x of Fig. 2. The dotted lines show the position of the side rails folded in. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section taken on line at m of Fig. 3. Y

A designates the fabric attached to the end rails, B, in any common manner.

0 designates the side rails. The side rails are preferably and most economically made of straight pieces of two-by-four timber having the ends rabbeted, and a piece, 0, fitted to the top and nailed, as at c, and secured at the end by a metal band, a, which passes over the top piece and preferably into a saw cut or groove at the bottom or sufficiently below the rabbet to give a firm holding. The band may pass around the end of the side rail the same as it does around the top piece; but inserting it in the groove gives a better finish. The upper enlargements or projections at the ends of the side rails may, however, be formed of the same piece with the rail itself, or in any other convenient way. Holes are bored into the ends of the side rails, near the top of the enlargements or upwardly-projecting portion and into the side of the end rails, and pins b placed in the holes in the side rails, with the end projecting to be applied in the holes in the end rails. The fabric secured to the end rails may be stretched sufficient to enable the pins to be placed in the holes in the end rails, and then permitted to spring back and draw 5 5 the end rails against the ends of the side rails. The tension of the fabric is found suflicient to keep the end rails pressed against the ends of the side rails with enough force to hold them in place when in use, and yet allow them to be foldedin on the pivotal connection afforded by the pins. I

The side rails should be of the same thickness as the end rails, and when folded in, as shown in Fig. 2, two mattresses can be packed in the space of one having the frame constructed as heretofore.

A metal plate secured to the end of the side rails and top piece and having a hole for the pin might be made to serve the purpose of the band. The edge of the end rails around the holes for the pin may be lined or, faced with metal; but for all ordinary uses and purposes this is not necessary.

I am aware of Patent No. 319,419, to Muhl and Oarsons, dated June 2, 1885, for mattress, which shows means for folding the mattress through the center to lessen its width, and of patent to Adams, dated February 26, 1825, for bedstead cording and fastening, which shows means for rotating the side and end rails of a bedstead to wind up and tighten the bedcord, and of Patent No. 184, 7 81, to Hope, dated November 28, 1876, for quilting-frames, which shows means for turning the side rails to roll up a quilt in the process of quilting; but my frame differs from these both in the arrangement of its parts and the end had in view. My object is to provide, in frames for wovenwire mattresses which have the end rails lo 0 cated above the side rails, means whereby the side rails may be folded in between the end rails for the purpose of making the frame more contracted in depth for storing or shipping the mattress in lots, or folded out to their nor- 5 mal position below the end rails, when desired, in order to subserve the usual office of such frames in use in connection with a bedstead. This I do by arranging the rails so that the side rails may pass sidewise between the 00- we incident edges of the end rails, and connecting the side rails to the end rails by a pivotal connection located eccentrically or to one side of the axis of the end rails, so as to support the end rails above the side railswhen folded out and in use on the bed, the end and side 2. In a frame for woven-wire mattresses in which the end rails are supported normally above the side rails, the side rails arranged below and wholly between the coincident edges of the end rails, and connected to the end rail by a pivotal connection located eccentrically or to one side of the axis of the side rails, whereby the side rails may be 'folded, so as to lie flat in the same plane with the end rails, as specified.

WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR.

Witnesses:

J NO. H. WHIPPLE, JAMES R. DEAN. 

